Edit: This is partially resolved now. Pretty much resolved and moved onto my newer post here.
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Hello good people,
I hope you’re all having a good time today.
I’m trying to restore my site which was wiped earlier today in order to change to another domain name.
I downloaded a backup using the backup wizard and then discovered that the backup wizard is unreliable for restoring things.
I have a tar.gz file and am not experienced with these things at all. Supposedly I’m qualified to do tech work I’ve been told based on the fact that I was able to install ubuntu on my laptop!
These are the directions which a friend who works with computers gave me on a quick please help me call that we had a couple of hours ago:
restore the wordpress install via the cpanel
configure the wordpress install
then restore the database
in the folder ‘mysql’ contains a file called bretcohe\_wp201.sql – this will be the file that you need to use to restore the database via phpmyadmin
in folder \`homedir\\public\_html\\wp-content\\uploads\` you will find all the files that you had uploaded to your site before – you may need to restore the contents of this directory to your server via sftp
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I think I did all of that but the site still isn’t up and running.
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This is a business site for a new business that is starting to get going now and it really shouldn’t be offline for any length of time. Any help here will be much appreciated!
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Where is the ‘good’ site hosted? You should ask your host to restore their backup. If it’s self hosted and not backed up another way you may be hosed sorry.
Once (if!) you get it back up, set up manageWP or another wp management tool abs use their free backups (weekly I think), and pay for the daily ones if you’re making regular changes. Super cheap and I’ve not had any issues restoring backups with them. And/or pay for a WordPress professional to manage the site long term (updates, backups, security, performance management etc).
I suggest you copy the whole wp-content folder into your new WordPress install, not just the uploads folder. That will restore any plugins from the original site.
Do you still need assistance with this or was it figured out?
If it’s for a business, I’d consider hiring someone to get it resolved asap. Asking for help on reddit when they don’t have access to your system or the files is going to be a lot of shooting in the dark and hoping for the best.